Famous Quotes

Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
• Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
• Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
• Success has always been a great liar.
• That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
• The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
• The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
• The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
• The doer alone learneth.
• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
• The future influences the present just as much as the past.
• The lie is a condition of life.
• The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
• The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
• There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
• There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
• There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
• There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
• There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
• There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
• To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
• Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
• We have art in order not to die of the truth.
• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
• What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.